Eric, Here's some info about the test-perror2 failures:
> 3 x FAIL: test-perror2 All three failures at line 112: ASSERT (strstr (buf, err)); On OpenBSD 4.9: i = 1, err = "Success", buf = "Undefined error: 0\n" config.status: S["REPLACE_STRERROR_R"]="1" S["REPLACE_STRERROR"]="1" S["HAVE_DECL_STRERROR_R"]="1" S["REPLACE_PERROR"]="1" S["GNULIB_STRERROR_R"]="1" S["GNULIB_STRERROR"]="1" S["GNULIB_PERROR"]="1" On HP-UX 11.00 and IRIX 6.5: i = 2, err = "Unknown error -3", buf = "Unknown error\n" config.status: S["REPLACE_STRERROR_R"]="0" S["REPLACE_STRERROR"]="1" S["HAVE_DECL_STRERROR_R"]="0" S["REPLACE_PERROR"]="0" S["GNULIB_STRERROR_R"]="1" S["GNULIB_STRERROR"]="1" S["GNULIB_PERROR"]="1" Bruno -- In memoriam Mona Mahmudnizhad <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Mahmudnizhad>